Researchers have shown how biodegradable plastic can be turned into a foam that can be used as insulation in walls or in flotation devices. A team at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand put ...

A box truck filled fast as residents dropped off Styrofoam they’d saved for months, according to The Citizen. Cayuga Climate Action collected about 40 cubic yards of packing foam during a one-day ...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam is a problematic material, in that it's cheap and lightweight but also non-biodegradable and difficult to recycle. German scientists have developed a possible ...

If you were trying to harm the environment, you couldn't do much worse than invent a flimsy, single-use styrofoam box, a hunk of non-biodegradable pollution destined to haunt this world for thousands ...

For years, Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) has been the gold standard for suppressing and extinguishing petroleum-based fires. But its effectiveness has come with a cost: the presence of PFAS, ...

In Colorado, we know all too well the devastating impacts of wildfires. The loss of community, loss of loved ones, loss of homes, and more brought on by fires is a traumatic experience far too many ...

SPRINGFIELD — Ninth graders at The Springfield Renaissance School never imagined their science class would be rooting through trash after lunch, especially on nacho day. And no one thought nearly a ...

A new synthetic foam works just as well as the leading gold-standard biological materials in closing up chronic wounds in animal tests, but should cost 75% less (Sci. Transl. Med. 2022, DOI: ...

Your next puffy coat could be biodegradable—at least, the fill inside of it could be. On Tuesday, New York-based Primaloft announced its new Bio insulation, a 100 percent recycled synthetic that the ...